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“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.”
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“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
― Music at Night and Other Essays
― Music at Night and Other Essays
“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
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“Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
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